G
guitardude
I got it done! I was sweating bullets during the partition shrink because
the progress bar never moved from zero. that is at least I never saw it
move. After 5 minutes of seeing zero percent progress, I laid down and
started reading a book to distract me from watching the bar. Then sure
enough I looked back at the screen after about 10 minutes and it was on the
account import thing. That was a big relief. The grub bootloader worked
fine. I havent booted to the linux yet because I don't have time to start
playing around yet. I will do that tomorrow. I'm thinking about taking my
laptop to my vocational school to show it off. One thing I noticed though,
On the grub bootloader, it shows two Vista/Longhorns. I have been going with
the second one thinking that the first one is the Sony restore partition.
The first time that I selected Vista/longhorn it automatically ran a
chkdisk, im guessing this is normal because of the partition shrink in the
whole install process. If anyone has any ideas on what the first
vista/longhorn selection in the grub bootloader is for, please let me know.
I cannot tell you all how much I appreciate each of your contributions. I
don't blame you if some of you chuckled a little bit at the questions I
asked. I was just completely new to the whole dual booting thing. this has
been a great learning experience for me, especially since I will be going
into computer science as my major. You have all been great!
sincerely,
guitardude
"guitardude" <guitardude@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:O320S9tZIHA.984@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Ok, I love Microsoft and all, but I want to have a little fun. I know that
> there are live cds for linux, and I have done this but you cant save
> anything really that way (I mean settings and stuff). I would like to set
> up a small partition (like between 10 and 15 gigs) just for playing around
> and showing off something cool. I have tried to find info on a safe way to
> do this but I have seen a lot about how an XP/Vista dual boot setup will
> erase each others restore points. I am a huge fan of restore points and I
> don't want linux to erase mine. Will linux erase the restore points like
> XP does with vista? This is my current setup:
>
> 1 HDD (IDE) with two partitions:
> 1st is the windows vista (location 0 in device properties)
> 2nd is a recovery partition that Sony put on my laptop. (id like to
> keep it if I can. In disk management I cannot get to any of the details
> for this partition. it just says "EISA configuration")
>
> It's a 120 gig hard drive and I have a 300 external so space is not really
> a problem for me.
> I would like to put Ubuntu Linux on the same internal drive as Vista. I
> have seen on one website that you should not shrink the Vista Partition
> (they said this in bold red) and another said to shrink the vista
> partition. What exactly is the risk that makes the one site scream "don't
> shrink"? If running Linux with Vista is safe and logical then please let
> me know the easiest way to get it going.
> thanks,
> guitardude
>
> p.s. I am NOT trying to start some kind of Microsoft vs. Linux argument!
> please just help me WITHOUT blessing or cursing either OS!
the progress bar never moved from zero. that is at least I never saw it
move. After 5 minutes of seeing zero percent progress, I laid down and
started reading a book to distract me from watching the bar. Then sure
enough I looked back at the screen after about 10 minutes and it was on the
account import thing. That was a big relief. The grub bootloader worked
fine. I havent booted to the linux yet because I don't have time to start
playing around yet. I will do that tomorrow. I'm thinking about taking my
laptop to my vocational school to show it off. One thing I noticed though,
On the grub bootloader, it shows two Vista/Longhorns. I have been going with
the second one thinking that the first one is the Sony restore partition.
The first time that I selected Vista/longhorn it automatically ran a
chkdisk, im guessing this is normal because of the partition shrink in the
whole install process. If anyone has any ideas on what the first
vista/longhorn selection in the grub bootloader is for, please let me know.
I cannot tell you all how much I appreciate each of your contributions. I
don't blame you if some of you chuckled a little bit at the questions I
asked. I was just completely new to the whole dual booting thing. this has
been a great learning experience for me, especially since I will be going
into computer science as my major. You have all been great!
sincerely,
guitardude
"guitardude" <guitardude@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:O320S9tZIHA.984@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Ok, I love Microsoft and all, but I want to have a little fun. I know that
> there are live cds for linux, and I have done this but you cant save
> anything really that way (I mean settings and stuff). I would like to set
> up a small partition (like between 10 and 15 gigs) just for playing around
> and showing off something cool. I have tried to find info on a safe way to
> do this but I have seen a lot about how an XP/Vista dual boot setup will
> erase each others restore points. I am a huge fan of restore points and I
> don't want linux to erase mine. Will linux erase the restore points like
> XP does with vista? This is my current setup:
>
> 1 HDD (IDE) with two partitions:
> 1st is the windows vista (location 0 in device properties)
> 2nd is a recovery partition that Sony put on my laptop. (id like to
> keep it if I can. In disk management I cannot get to any of the details
> for this partition. it just says "EISA configuration")
>
> It's a 120 gig hard drive and I have a 300 external so space is not really
> a problem for me.
> I would like to put Ubuntu Linux on the same internal drive as Vista. I
> have seen on one website that you should not shrink the Vista Partition
> (they said this in bold red) and another said to shrink the vista
> partition. What exactly is the risk that makes the one site scream "don't
> shrink"? If running Linux with Vista is safe and logical then please let
> me know the easiest way to get it going.
> thanks,
> guitardude
>
> p.s. I am NOT trying to start some kind of Microsoft vs. Linux argument!
> please just help me WITHOUT blessing or cursing either OS!